February 11, 2018

It was on Twitter, tweeted by the university, which I follow. I considered retweeting or blogging it, but I didn't, because it's pretty normal around here. I see guys like this all the time, and I think they just want to be comfortable when they get where they're going, probably moving from one well-heated campus building to another. Even though I've been doing "men in shorts" posts on this blog for 14 years, this didn't cross my line for bloggable.

Pampered Americans going from heated home to heated car to heated stores. I'll be impressed when I see these guys walk 200 meters to the bus stop and wait 10 minutes for the next bus then walk more after they get off the bus.

young and full of more energy than you know what to do with...energy (calorie burning) to maintain body temperature

Yes, context matters. Also, the supernatural happens in short bursts, but the immune system will not long suffer deprivation. The antigens of disease are omnipresent and awaiting an opportunity to overwhelm system defenses. The young, energetic, and superheroes, beware.

“Unique” means one of a kind. Such poor writing from Daily Mail. A thing cannot by definition be unique and “not uncommon” at the same time. What a lazy double-negative phrase to employ! I expect more from the English.

Native Californian here, but lived in Chicago for 4 years back in the 90s. IIRC, my trips during winter were all about hustling between warm place to warm place. Nowadays, I joke about how homes in Chicago are warmer in winter than they are here in SoCal. The homes here have very little insulation, and nobody cranks the heat. On the other hand, the radiator heat in my little apartment in Evanston was on from October through May ... always had to crack a window, and wear shorts!

I do this all the time when go to the gym since the trip is always from home to the gym and back again. It has to be below 10 F for me to actually dress up in pants and a coat for this. However, I always keep a coat and pants in the car in case I break down or get a flat.

Half or more of the boys at my son’s high school wear some form of basketball short 365 days a year, sleet or snow or dark of night. The lack of common sense this implies during bad weather irritates me, but they’ll figure it out eventually.

"Same in AK. You'll see coats and shorts worn together, especially on the Pacific Islander guys."

Yep. I used to take the kids to outdoor hockey practice at -10F and see a Samoan in shorts and T-shirt for a full hour. Damn. Brrr! I'm not sure how they kept from getting frostbite, but they weren't shivering.

1969 my older brother home on the weekend from the University of Iowa. December I think. We were doing chores, feeding and bedding the cattle, as was usual for a Saturday morning. My brother commented on the idiocy of current (1969) college kids, he even saw a guy walking down the snow covered sidewalk, wearing shorts and sandles. Dad with a smirk on his face, asked him what he was doing when he had witnessed such idiocy? Brother answered he was on his way to the girlfriends on his 750 Honda.

The Daily Mail has American as well as Brit editors, but seemingly all recent high school graduates(?). Everything is always shocking and everybody is furious and the English, whether the American version or the Queen's, always atrocious. They just shovel the news in at the top as fast as it falls out the bottom. But it is often the first with something that happened, though you may wish to look elsewhere to find out exactly what, and there is also the odd item about an archeological find, or whatever, that is interesting to read.

On the east coast (and probably elsewhere) the women very commonly do a nearly as ridiculous equivalent where they seem to like wearing cotton tights alone for leg-gear, no matter how how cold it is and how fancy/slutty/elaborate/attention-getting the rest of their dress is.

It's the opposite dress style I don't get. Here in SoCal we have heat waves in the summer, and I see younger folks in thick hoodies and baggy pants riding bicycles or skateboarding on hot sidewalks in 95 degree weather.

My pet peeve of the DM's tabloidy excess is (1) describing every athlete including the backup punter as a "star", and (2) describing people with ordinary jobs as "executives" because the the job title includes something which in common English has a similar meaning. But the point is that all descriptions of impact should be discounted to zero.

It's not clear to me if the cause is ignorant staff or condescension to their readers.

heat waves in the summer, and I see younger folks in thick hoodies and baggy pants

Rebels with a cause and without a clue. We observed a similar phenomenon with the Feminists' "Slut Walk". Not to mention what preceded, coincided, and followed the so-called "Reckoning". Bad and Wicked Choices with progressive consequences (PC).

Lean in , lean in. Sure. All you have to face is 4 months of bitter cold. Down south it rains and rains and then it rains again. But one day the bright days return and flowers bloom everywhere at God's Masters.

" I think they just want to be comfortable when they get where they're going,"BS.It's just dudes embracing a foolish route to look tough.I've known guys who dare each other to stick with it..not to "pussy out".

Blogger Fernandistein said... Howard said..."Science Fair Race v IQ California Hubub" That was pretty funny; for some reason they forgot to mention that the budding white supremacist is "Asian".

Yeah. You would thunk that libturds would use this type of factual result to prove white/asian privilege and justify money for more union jobs paying dues directly into DNC slush funds to teach intensive afternoon homework tootering for Afro- and Meso-American students without regard to immigration status.

Well, women are the feminine gender, and all that it naturally entails. There is a minority of men who fantasize of being the peacocks of Homo sapiens, but they are few and far between.

This comment is convoluted. Humans have highly developed cerebra and in that sense the males are the sex that excel at using their most advanced attributes to to attract sexual attention either through interesting or unusual or highly successful or admirable behavior. Even the most successful athletes among us are using their brains as well as their bodies. Female humans may not be content with being as physically dull as peahens, but they are still the gender that contributes less to evolution and that get to rely primarily on their fertility (or signifiers of it) to incite male testosterone to kick in and initiate breeding behavior with what are otherwise far less interesting specimens.

With a skirt in cold weather, you need to wear at least tights. You can also wear high boots and/or thick leggings with warm socks. The thing of leaving your legs bare with a skirt doesn’t even look good in winter.

Summer clothing in deep winter is very common in Minnesota. Being originally from Connecticut, i still find this behavior curious, however common it may be. I call it Minnesota macho. On the other hand, many Minnesotans really overdress for the cold. I guess wind chill warnings and alerts really do frighten some people. Cold weather clothing can be stylish in its own Red Green sort of way. Ultralight down coats have really made a difference, allowing us to be really warm in ultralight garb.

This trend has been going on for years in high schools and to some extent middle schools too.

I always figured it was because very few kids walk anywhere any more, so why bother dressing for cold weather? Yet another unintended side effect of suburban mom minivan culture, sheltering and coddling kids far too long, IMHO.